Transitional provision

3.—(1) Regulation 2 shall not apply to a question relating to the blanching of a claimant’s fingers where—

(a) the question arises in connection with a period of assessment which relates to a claim which is made—

(i) before the commencement date, or

(ii) within 3 months after the commencement date in respect of a period which began before the commencement date, or

(b) a person suffers from an attack of a disease and under regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (recrudescence) the attack is a recrudescence of a disease for which a claim was made before the commencement date or within 3 months after the commencement date in respect of a period which began before the commencement date.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) “commencement date” means the date on which these Regulations come into force; and

(b) a period of assessment which begins on the day following the end of a preceding period of assessment, shall be treated as a continuation of the preceding period of assessment.